Elizabeth Marvel

I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.

— Elizabeth Marvel

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.

— Elizabeth Marvel

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I'm a hypervisual person.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I've been around the block.

— Elizabeth Marvel

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.

— Elizabeth Marvel

If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?

— Elizabeth Marvel

I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person.

— Elizabeth Marvel

There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

— Elizabeth Marvel

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach…

— Elizabeth Marvel

We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.

— Elizabeth Marvel

You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I know all my tricks, and I'm pretty bored with them, so if that's all someone wants, I'd rather wait for TV…

— Elizabeth Marvel

When I was nursing my son, you're up all the time during the first year, and you're sort of brain dead. So…

— Elizabeth Marvel

Every time I do a play, I'm like, 'When do I get to do the one where I wear a gown, sit…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager…

— Elizabeth Marvel

When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service,…

— Elizabeth Marvel

You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I ended up landing in London out of high school, and I saw a performance that Vanessa Redgrave gave, just because it…

— Elizabeth Marvel

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I don't believe in saying no.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I'm dying for people to let me be funny!

— Elizabeth Marvel

OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the…

— Elizabeth Marvel

Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true?

— Elizabeth Marvel

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.

— Elizabeth Marvel

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a…

— Elizabeth Marvel

Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as…

— Elizabeth Marvel